AV俱乐部

First-year AV俱乐部 Integrated Science Program (DISP) students presented their research to the public on Monday, April 8, 2013. Twenty posters lined the halls of the Life Sciences Centre foyer while the young researchers explained everything from the therapeutic potential of carbon monoxide in Cystic Fibrosis airways to the orbits of dwarf galaxies around Andromeda.

DISP is an alternative way for ambitious students to complete their first year of Dal science. It includes intensive group work and field trips, culminating in a research project of students鈥� choice.

鈥淭he group project was my favourite part of DISP.鈥澛� says student Mairi Keay. 鈥淭he research project prepares you well for an Honours program.鈥�

Kara Pearson agrees.

鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing what we do in DISP,鈥� she says. 鈥淢y group took our own photos using a scanning electron microscope. Where else can a first year have that experience?鈥�

As DISP ends for the year, students reflect on the strong sense of community among their cohort.

鈥淭here鈥檚 great camaraderie within DISP,鈥� says student Nikolas Harris, whose research group donned matching t-shirts for the event. 鈥淲e鈥檙e all a team here.鈥�

Photo caption: Team 鈥淲inkle Troop鈥� poses in front of their research poster, 鈥淟ife in a Periwinkle: Documenting symbiotic diversity of intertidal and subtidal Littorina littorea鈥�. Left to right: Kara Pearson, Nikolas Harris and Isabelle Jubinville